Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They will say that volunteers are to work in both the children's and adult wards of the Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham, taking patients for walks, organizing parties and baseball games, and taking groups on trips and picnics. The hospital does not have a staff large enough to take patients outdoors on these activities, and so depends on Summer School volunteers to "create a normal environment and activity program," frequently "a spring-board to a cure," William F. McLaughlin, Superintendent of the Hospital, claims...
...comes to any part of this Government . . . claiming some privilege . . . on the basis that he is part of my family or of my friends, that he has any connection with the White House, he is to be thrown out instantly . . . I can't believe that anybody on my staff would ever be guilty of an indiscretion. But if ever anything came to my attention of that kind, any part of this Government, that individual would be gone...
...Administration and his party than any other big blow of his political career. For the first time the storm's eye centered on the White House and on wiry (5 ft. 8 in., 135 Ibs.) Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, 59, ex-Governor of New Hampshire, presidential chief of staff and next to Ike the most powerful man in the Administration. Adams, by presidential assignment the guardian of the integrity that Ike had always promised, the man of stern incorruptibility who threw out Government appointees of high rank at the first whiff of scandal, was now himself in deep trouble...
...years ago, Adams continued, he called his staff together to discuss "this point," and it was decided that "it was desirable for the staff of the President of the United States to refrain from doing anything which might possibly lead to any question such as you have posed. I have no excuses to offer. I did not come up here to make apology to you or this committee. If there were any errors, as I have already stated, they were errors, perhaps of inexperience . . . I will say this, that if I had the decisions now before me to make...
...Adams' knowing way with politics and his efficiency as Ike's floor manager at the Chicago convention brought him close to the man who was going to be his boss. Ike liked his snappy, almost wordless directorial abilities, made Adams his campaign manager. The chief of staff for the campaign became chief of staff at the White House...